My work explores how architectural space is used to express desire and control within images. How do we inhabit illusionistic architectural space, and how does that space function as a utopian arena? My current watercolor series, Digressions, combines disparate modes of address in painting using a strategy of recessed spaces guided by associative digressions. Drawing together traditions of shallow-depth space such as Van Eyck’s grisaille figures, architectural cartouches, trompe-l’oeil painting and computer desktop design, this series explores spatial compression as a wide-ranging mode of visual organization that taps into the slippages and pile ups that occur inadvertently as we immerse ourselves in the digital image commons of today.
